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Re:Linus on Line Breaks (2020) by jagger27 on Sunday November 28, 2021 @01:26PM (#29371398)
> I take the even more draconian approach of wrapping to 72 columns when writing comments, after the fashion of PEP 8.[3]

Which also happens to be how Linus wrapped the lines of this particular email.

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Re:Linus on Line Breaks (2020) by SonOfLilit on Sunday November 28, 2021 @04:01PM (#29372978)
Plaintext email is wrapped to 72, that's in the RFC - Linus didn't have much choice there.
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Re:Linus on Line Breaks (2020) by rhn_mk1 on Sunday November 28, 2021 @05:57PM (#29374082)
Sure did:

> Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5322#section-2.1.1

https://www.arp242.net/email-wrapping.html

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